Kendra Augustin

Kendra Augustin

Kendra Augustin is a Florida born and bred, New York based, multi-hyphenate. Her anthology play, DEATH IN THE FAMILY received a workshop production at Dixon Place in 2021, co-produced by In Full Color and Dixon Place. She was part of the 2022-2023 The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab Cycle 5 where she developed a full-length play currently titled, THE BEAUTY OF MY YOUTH IS GONE (BUT THE CHEMICALS REMAIN...
Kendra Augustin is a Florida born and bred, New York based, multi-hyphenate. Her anthology play, DEATH IN THE FAMILY received a workshop production at Dixon Place in 2021, co-produced by In Full Color and Dixon Place. She was part of the 2022-2023 The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab Cycle 5 where she developed a full-length play currently titled, THE BEAUTY OF MY YOUTH IS GONE (BUT THE CHEMICALS REMAIN). She was the 2021-2022 inaugural resident of The Bechdel Group's "The Bechdel Test- it's a damn low bar" residency. https://www.kendraaugustin.com/



Plays

  • How Dare You!
    *Ten Minute Play*

    A couple, six months into their relationship, play a game to figure out if their romance is worth sticking with.
  • ADULTHOOD? NO, THANK YOU!
    *~Ten-Minute Play*

    Adam is an adult who has been staying at home with his parents for six months, and can't quite find it in himself to leave.

    Lawrence, a *wizard*, and someone who knew Adam as a child, keeps coming to him in the hopes that he'll take him up on his offer to help remain in this happy, in-between state: not quite child, not quite adult.
  • Dying is an Art
    *~10 minute play*

    Sylvia Plath is like a cat. She has died and come back and she is now on her final life. In a dreamy, purgatory like world Sylvia Plath 1, (or Otto) and Sylvia Plath 2 are manifestations (visions) of Sylvia’s mind come to life to push her over the edge one last time.
  • Mismatched Socks
    *Ten-Minute Play*

    Two study abroad summer flings meet years later on the streets of New York during Thanksgiving weekend. Will they find love again or will they realize the past was just that?
  • Saving, Mr. Turd, The Turtle.
    *Ten-Minute Play*

    Ella and Annette are superhero best friends. They are now on a mission to stop Annette’s bully Margaret from stealing Annette’s pet turtle and feeding him to her dog like she said she would!
  • Living Creatures
    *Ten- Minute play*

    Joley's is in a panic because her best friend, Reecie is missing. She calls in her 2 closest friends to meet her at the park to help her find her best friend. Only problem? Reecie is a doll.
  • P.A.B
    *Ten-Minute Play*

    A wannabe comedian, upset that her mother didn't laugh at her set, locks herself behind close doors -and confronts her mother about it- once they return home!

    *Originally commissioned for Cosmic Orchid's Voire Dire Project: Behind Closed Doors.
  • Dropping the Handkerchief
    *Ten-Minute Play*

    Handkerchiefs are a code to knowing what someone feels and saying what one feels in this Victorian era romantic comedy.
  • Death in the Family
    *An anthology play!*
    *A full-length play*
    --Since it's an anthology play all of these pieces can stand alone as well.--

    The five one acts are : Cause of Birth Unknown, Are There People Who Never Feel the End of the World?, The Other Cheek, and The Call of the Void, Scavenger Hunt.

    Content warning: violence, discussions of suicide, sexual violence, abuse,...
    *An anthology play!*
    *A full-length play*
    --Since it's an anthology play all of these pieces can stand alone as well.--

    The five one acts are : Cause of Birth Unknown, Are There People Who Never Feel the End of the World?, The Other Cheek, and The Call of the Void, Scavenger Hunt.

    Content warning: violence, discussions of suicide, sexual violence, abuse, pedophilia.



    "Death in the Family" is a series of five tragicomedic and whimsical vignettes about the effects of death, grief, and trauma. It lets us in on conversations we may never get to have -- whether it's two preteens pondering the ramifications of being born, brothers who wonder if anyone else is as lonely, if and when revenge is justified, what happens to the people left behind after domestic violence, or how older and younger siblings experience parents in different ways.
  • Stranger
    *Ten-Minute Play*

    Synopsis: Violet finds out her husband, Joel has a larger family than previously revealed.
  • The Astonishing and the Lily
    *Ten-Minute Play*

    The unofficial saint of mental illness and the official saint of mental illness meet to figure out who deserves the rightful honor of holding the title.
  • Black Star
    *Approx 15-20 mins*

    Black Star is about Ramona, the only black kid and open atheist at an all girls Catholic school, who gets accused of nefarious behavior and witchcraft.
  • Are There People Who Never Feel The End of the World?
    *Probably more 15 - 20 minutes*



    A tale of brotherhood, loneliness, and loss.

  • Scavenger Hunt
    *Ten Minute play*

    Two sisters go on scavenger hunt in their childhood backyard after finding out it's the only way they can get their mom's will.

    originally commissioned by AMiOS for Shotz: Local 100.
  • The Call of the Void
    *Approx. 15 - 20 mins.*

    Call of The Void explores the shift in the relationship dynamic between a brother and sister after a tragic death in the family.
  • Madame
    *Ten - minute play*

    Empress of Haiti prepares her daughter for upcoming nuptials and overall future.
  • Smart Brains
    *Ten - minute play*

    Fiona goes back to the cemetery where she met her childhood best friend, Margeaux. It turns out Margeaux is also at the cemetery doing her own sordid business.
  • Die For My Love
    *Ten - minute play*

    a comedy about toxic love.
  • Breaking Up!...with Denise Thomas_ Episode 3
    Feeling philanthropic during the pandemic, semi-famous Youtuber Denise Thomas offers to help people break up over zoom -- with who or whatever they want -- in Breaking Up!...with Denise Thomas.

    In this lost episode: A puppet, Mister Y, decides he wants to reconsider his 7 year relationship with the woman whose hand is up his butt, Amanda.
  • A Sunday Kind of Life, or Awful Freedom
    * Ten - minute play*

    Mark and Phoebe have been living in a Utopia for a year and Phoebe finally admits that she fucking hates it! Is a world with conflict...boring?


    A Sunday Kind of Life was originally commissioned by Amios for Shotz Trek:Next Generation
  • Ella or the Baby
    A couple has to decide between saving their unborn baby or the woman carrying their child.
  • (Sisterhood) In the Time of the Apocalypse - Full Length
    Thank you for choosing Radio Classique - the only easy listening French station in the southeastern United States. We are in the now! The climate - changing - burning alive now! But, there's also elephant shit, deadly hot air balloons , a Stromae song -- this isn't the 1940s after all, a sister who runs away, and a sister who stays. Be surreal with us in this moment and die later.
  • The Version of Myself I Almost Was
    Olivia accidentally stumbles into Olivia 2.0 (an idealized version of who she would have become had the pandemic had not happend) on Zoom.
  • The Last Hurrah
    *Ten - minute play*

    A Brooklyn couple has one last dinner before they say goodbye.
  • Ayiti, I Miss You, Mon Peyi
    Ten - minute play

    A sister duo from Haiti perform at the circus in "America" over and over as a means of survival.
  • Hellscape: We're Sorry
    Margo is on the phone with the department of labor trying to get through unemployment and it's impossible. Willow starts to wonder if the absurdity of the world they're living means that maybe this isn't the world they know.

    *Also exists as a radio play for New Ambassador Theatre Company's The Great Escapism.
  • Sisterhood in the Time of the Apocalypse-10 minute version:
    Two sisters find themselves in a hot air balloon after a decade of not seeing each other. Too bad
    the world is ending.